Walter Sidebottom

Walter Sidebottom
Personal information
Date of birth (1921-02-02)2 February 1921
Place of birth Hunslet, England
Date of death 23 October 1943(1943-10-23) (aged 22)
Place of death HMS Charybdis, English Channel
Position Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1941 Bolton Wanderers 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Walter Sidebottom (1 February 1921 – 23 October 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers.

Personal life

Sidebottom served as an able seaman in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Posted aboard HMS Charybdis, he was killed in action when the ship was sunk by German torpedo-boat destroyers at the Battle of Sept-Îles on 23 October 1943. Sidebottom is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bolton Wanderers 1938–39 First Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
Career total 1 0 0 0 1 0

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Walter Sidebottom at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Casualty Details: Walter Sidebottom". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ↑ Rippon, Anton (2011). Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War. Cheltenham: The History Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7524-7188-4.